HARROGATE, Tenn. – The No. 23 Lee University Flames defeated No. 15 Lincoln Memorial University 7-0 Wednesday afternoon at the LMU Tennis Complex. The Lee men improved to 7-1 and LMU slipped to 11-4.

Francisco Guimarães and Rytis Razminas opened doubles competition with a 6-0 shutout of Alexan Rares Giurea and Mathis Amsellem. Filipe Krohn and Stefan Mos doubled-up Victor Bourguignon and Sebastian Aranzeta 6-3 to secure the doubles point for Lee.

Quinn Groenendijk and Roberto Leal were pushed to a tiebreaker at No. 3 doubles. The duo claimed the tiebreaker 7-3 to defeat Radu Florea and Ethan Hirons 7-6.

In a battle of ranked opponents, No. 14 Krohn defeated No. 73 Giurea 6-2 and 6-2 to open singles competition. Mos pushed the Lee advantage to 3-0 with a 6-3, 6-0 defeat of Aranzeta. Razminas clinched the team victory with a 6-3, 6-4 win over Kai Miyatake at the fifth spot.

Groenendijk, ranked No. 47, held on to beat Hirons in three sets. Groenendijk won the opening set 6-3 before dropping the second 6-2. In the deciding set, Groenendijk outscored Hirons 6-2 for the win.

Guimarães lost the first set 6-4 to Florea before charging back to win the next two sets 6-1 and 7-5. Leal beat Bourguignon 6-3 in their first set. Bourguignon forced a third set with a 6-4 margin in the second set and Leal completed the Lee shutout with a 6-4 score in the third set.

The Flames return to action on Saturday against No. 13 Mississippi College. The GSC contest is set for a 10 a.m. start at the DeVos Tennis Center.
 
 
Coach Patric Hynes' thoughts:
"We played a really complete match today. Doubles was very sharp and put us in a strong position. We also had really good performances throughout the singles lineup.
"It's nice to beat a top 15 team at any time, but to do it on the road is always a great challenge and our guys met that really well today.
"We've got some big battles coming up, so we'll get back and get some rest and start preparing."